Brazilian police say possible human remains have been found their search for UK journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira as the sole suspect's family accuse police of torture.
Mr de Costa's mother, Maria de Fátima da Costa, said she was at the Atalaia do Norte port when her son arrived with police.
In a statement, the public security secretariat of Amazonas state — which oversees local police — said it would not comment on the family's accusations of torture by police.In Atalaia do Norte, the largest riverside town near where the journalist and Indigenous expert were last seen, the streets have become busy with soldiers in camouflaged trucks and distant sounds of helicopters.
By Friday, about 150 soldiers had been deployed on riverboats to hunt for the missing men and interview locals.According to members of an Indigenous group of watchmen who accompanied Mr Pereira and Mr Phillips the day before they disappeared, Mr de Costa and two other men pointed guns at them.
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